With news of Cell, the bestseller from ‘The King of Horror’ Stephen King, heading to our screen, we quickly found the book in a charity shop and gave it a read, to find out if it will be a great movie. Of course, reading the book will not tell us what the film will be like, King’s works have ranged from the excellent such as Misery; Stand By Me and The Mist to the not so … [Read more...]
Adding Zombies to a period drama
We finally got round to seeing Pride and Prejudice and Zombies this week. Poor timing saw the film fail at the box office as was released at the same time as Zoolander 2 and Deadpool which meant fewer screenings, as those 2 enjoyed multiple screens. The film is based on the Jane Austen book, but with the additional material of Zombies added to the story by Seth … [Read more...]
BMAF Review Burying The Ex
When we heard about the tragic accident that took young actor Anton Yelchin’s life, like most we reflected on his past films. The first time we saw him in a film, was opposite BMAF favourite, Jennifer Lawrence in Jodie Foster’s film The Beaver. But like many of us, he was probably more known for his work in big box office films such as Fright Night; Terminator Salvation; … [Read more...]
Barking Mad About Shark Films
At the time of writing this, it’s the 2016 Shark Week, which normally means many channels have programmes about these fishy stars of many a film, since one first rose to fame on screen with a simple der dum, der dum theme tune. That film was of course Jaws, despite being 41 years old this year, it remains barking mad about films favourite film. Our love of this film isn’t … [Read more...]
The Girl With All The Gifts: Coming From Page to Screen
When we heard about a new film coming called The Girl With All The Gifts we were intrigued about it. Finding it was based on a book of the same name by M.R. Carey, we quickly added it to our reading list. If the film is half as good as the book it could be a real must see! It is provisionally set for a September 2016 release. The book which is set in the future has the … [Read more...]